Truthful mechanism design for transmission scheduling in beyond wireless body area networks

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2018-08
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Yi, Changyan
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As an enabling technology for supporting ubiquitous physiological monitoring of human bodies, wireless body area networks (WBANs) has been proposed as a promising paradigm for future wireless communications, and can provide a lot of benefits in various perspectives. One major application of WBANs is the use for healthcare services. The implementation of WBAN-based remote medical systems can significantly alleviate the financial and social burdens resulting from the growth of aging population, the increasing demand for high-quality treatments and the rising costs, as it can offer pervasive healthcare monitoring, computer-assisted rehabilitations and emergency notifications. Because of these, a lot of research efforts have been made in this area. However, the technical issues related to data packet transmissions in beyond-WBAN communications (i.e., the information exchanges between WBAN-gateways and the remote facilities), though of high importance, have not been well studied. This thesis particularly emphasizes on studying the beyond-WBAN transmission scheduling by applying the mechanism design technique for achieving high network efficiency (e.g., social welfare maximization or operation revenue maximization), ensuring the fulfillment of desired priority-aware quality-of-service (QoS) and preventing any untruthful strategic bahaviors from smart WBAN-gateways. Specifically, i) we start by proposing a truthful mechanism for delay-sensitive transmission scheduling with homogeneous packet transmission time in the beyond-WBAN; ii) by relaxing the assumption of homogeneous packet transmission time and defining a discretized priority classification fitting the existing IEEE standards for WBAN-applications, we then design a novel truthful mechanism for supporting multi-class prioritized delay-sensitive beyond-WBAN transmission scheduling; iii) with the further consideration of a more general transmission service process and the relaxation of the fixed priority requirement, we redesign a truthful mechanism for managing delay-dependent dynamic prioritized transmission scheduling; and iv) for dealing with applications with stringent delay limits in the beyond-WBAN transmission, we extend the previously employed delay-sensitive transmission scheduling framework to a delay-constrained one and develop a corresponding truthful mechanism for delay-constrained prioritized transmission scheduling. Both theoretical analyses and simulations are conducted to evaluate the performance of the proposed mechanisms.
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WBAN, Transmission scheduling, Truthful mechanism design, Priority-aware QoS, Delay sensitivity
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